Prison Survival Videos

The Marshall Project published a pair of extraordinary 20-minute videos about what inmates must do in order to avoid becoming victims of sexual abuse. The videos, which were produced through a federal grant under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, will be shown in institutions across New York state and feature incredibly detailed advice from inmates, some of whom have been sexually assaulted, about how to protect oneself from predators while incarcerated.

300,000 male prisoners are raped or sexually assaulted each year.Informal surveys put a prisoner’s chances of rape at 90%.

The orientation videos are an attempt to confront that legacy and to change a prison culture in which sexual assault, and the code of silence surrounding it, remain all too common.

Statistics

Did you know that 76% of former prisoners are re-arrested within 5 years?

That’s why we follow our clients for 5 years after their release from prison.

U.S. prison population

The U.S. prison population recently hit the 1.8 million mark and that’s just counting those in prison or jail. Throw in parolees and probationers and the combined number of people under some form of correctional supervision rises to nearly 6 million, an estimated one out of every 38 adults.

“I have visited some of the best and the worst prisons and have never seen signs of coddling, but I have seen the terrible results of the boredom and frustration of empty hours and pointless existence.” — former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger